storm will get thrashed in the finals if they continue to play like that, gutted, but sharks looked decent against a former good team.
as gall said we need to play for 80 minutes not 79

They dominated the play there was just an abundance of handling errors. Pretty easy to sort out. Add in the denied try plus take away the wrongfully awarded try and the score line would have read a lot different. If the Storm can fire up and play the way they did in those 3 minutes for a full match, they'll easily go all the way. The pace and skill of their play makers is immense - when they can hold on to the footy.

They dominated the play there was just an abundance of handling errors. Pretty easy to sort out. Add in the denied try plus take away the wrongfully awarded try and the score line would have read a lot different. If the Storm can fire up and play the way they did in those 3 minutes for a full match, they'll easily go all the way. The pace and skill of their play makers is immense - when they can hold on to the footy.

its not that easy to sort out, storm wont do it this year, they are an injury away from falling over

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative." John Stuart Mill

They dominated the play there was just an abundance of handling errors. Pretty easy to sort out. Add in the denied try plus take away the wrongfully awarded try and the score line would have read a lot different. If the Storm can fire up and play the way they did in those 3 minutes for a full match, they'll easily go all the way. The pace and skill of their play makers is immense - when they can hold on to the footy.

Storm have to rise above.

Winning in the final minutes shows determination but you got to remember it was Cronulla not a top side.

I've heard his name mentioned so I suspect they've talked to him at least.
We'll probably end up with Kearney but. Replacing a coach with a 35% record with one with a 25% record... FML.

i can see the potential benefit of having the national coach coaching the "national" club. one would think they would be inspired to play well at club level to strive for a test jersey, but who knows..

as for folkes, i just think he would be a good fit. he's a fitness freak so you know the players will be well-conditioned, and he used to coach a forward-oriented game which would suit the warriors because you have the best forward talent coming through.

you know what's crazy? the sharks look like they'll have to travel to canberra to play the raiders in the first week of finals. who saw that coming? that is CRAZY. who would want to play the raiders first up? and down there.....

They dominated the play there was just an abundance of handling errors. Pretty easy to sort out. Add in the denied try plus take away the wrongfully awarded try and the score line would have read a lot different. If the Storm can fire up and play the way they did in those 3 minutes for a full match, they'll easily go all the way. The pace and skill of their play makers is immense - when they can hold on to the footy.

there is an overreliance on the storm's big 3 that i can see it being their undoing if one or more have a bad day. that's why i think manly are such clear favourites.. threats and gamebreakers all over the park - quality halves, the stewart brothers, killer, t-rex, choc..

Gonna rip a wiki quote here because I couldn't quite remember the sequence of events:

The Storm defeated Manly 34–8 in the 2007 Grand Final but lost to in the 2008 re-match in a history-making 0–40 loss. To add to the rivalry, Melbourne beat Manly 40–12 in the opening final of the 2009 finals series, ending their bid to be back-to-back premiers.

Also 26-22 was the score when we beat your team at home earlier this year. See you in the finals

Gonna rip a wiki quote here because I couldn't quite remember the sequence of events:

The Storm defeated Manly 34–8 in the 2007 Grand Final but lost to in the 2008 re-match in a history-making 0–40 loss. To add to the rivalry, Melbourne beat Manly 40–12 in the opening final of the 2009 finals series, ending their bid to be back-to-back premiers.

Also 26-22 was the score when we beat your team at home earlier this year. See you in the finals

Yeah but you played a team spending approx $1 million less per year than you guys...

Strong rumour doing the rounds at the moment that Warriors management are throwing big $$ at Craig Bellamy to move to Auckland next year. Would be fucking stoked if it happened, considering what a master he is at turning unproven or average players into stars, imaging what he could do with the potential in our roster (particularly the juniors). I'm definitely picking a big name coach to be signed for next year considering that our current owners have a lot of money to invest int he club.

Bellamy is off contract at the end of 2013 from what I hear

This is the main reason the Roosters haven't paid Smith out - they want to lure Bellamy to Easts for the start of 2014 so they'll hold Smith for one more season (and use Taylor if they have to) in the hope Bellamy comes to Bondi rather than Bro Hi.